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Sunday, February 17, 2002

Been a lot of traffic in the Canadian Media lately about the new Gold Medal winners in Olympic Pairs Skating. Even the Ufie's are on the bandwagon. Allegations and resignations are flying...and medal standings are being re-arranged...

Anyone remember Elizabeth Manley???

C'mon! You HAVE to remember...it was only an Olympics or two ago! Elizabeth Manley, the only one of the three medal winners in Womens Figure Skating who NAILED her program...and ended up with Silver because the judging panel over-marked one of the two "dueling Carmens". What a farce...

And if we only suspected then that there were political and other backroom deals going on, well, we sure as shootin' KNOW it now...

Betwixt all the scandals with the IOC and getting the games to Salt Lake...and now THIS...the Olympics are beginning to lose what little credibility they once had -- can the games survive? Look for some soul searching and navel-gazing in the New York Times...if they can ever get the eyeglass OFF Afghanistan and Osama Bin Laden.

BTW, we Canucks already KNOW they won the Gold...we don't want the d*mn medal...we want a return of the integrity and honor that USED to mark 'amatuer' sport.